The computational expense of creating three-dimensional images that can be viewed by all is just one factor holding them back…
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An edited collection of advanced computing news from Communications of the ACM, ACM TechNews, other ACM resources, and news sites around the Web.
Quantum computers that encode data in fuzzy quantum states might help advance artificial intelligence significantly.Nature From ACM TechNews | August 2, 2013
Hugh Rienhoff says that his nine-year-old daughter, Bea, is "a fire cracker", "a tomboy" and "a very sassy, impudent girl". But in a forthcoming research paper,...Nature From ACM News | June 27, 2013
Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing—random-access memory, or RAM—and slow...Nature From ACM News | June 17, 2013
Sitting motionless in her wheelchair, paralysed from the neck down by a stroke, Cathy Hutchinson seems to take no notice of the cable rising from the top of her...Nature From ACM News | May 13, 2013
It's hard to stand out from the crowd—particularly if you are a single photon in a sea of millions in an optical fibre.Nature From ACM News | November 27, 2012
The highest possible resolution images—about 100,000 dots per inch—have been achieved, and in full-color, with a printing method that uses tiny pillars a few tens...Nature From ACM News | August 13, 2012
Two people who are unable to move their limbs have been able to guide a robot arm to reach and grasp objects using only their brain activity, a paper in Nature ...Nature From ACM News | May 17, 2012
A proposal by Swiss Federal Institute of Technology scientist Henry Markram to build a supercomputer model integrating all knowledge about the human brain is one...Nature From ACM TechNews | February 27, 2012
The next generation of exascale supercomputers could complete one billion billion calculations per second, which would be 1,000 times faster than today's most powerful...Mother Nature Network From ACM TechNews | January 25, 2012
You could have foreseen the Arab Spring if only you'd been paying enough attention to the news. That's the claim of a new study that shows how data mining of...Nature From ACM News | September 21, 2011
When its experiments started in earnest earlier this year, many scientists hoped that the world's most powerful collider would turn up new particles, additional...Nature From ACM News | July 26, 2011
Quantum key distribution allows two remote parties to grow a shared secret key. Its security is founded on the principles of quantum mechanics, but in reality...Nature From ACM News | June 20, 2011
The emergence of the Stuxnet worm signals that groups or nations could launch a cyberattack that targets critical infrastructure and threatens to cause physical...Nature From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2011